Check-punch.



Patented Aug. l3, l90|. C: F. DUDLEY.

- CHECK PUNCH.

(Application filad'Apr. 4, 1901.

(No Model.)

W1 T/VES 5;

Afmmey UNITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

CHARLES F. COOLEY, OF HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS.

CHECK-PUNCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 680,226, dated August13, 1901.

Application filed April 4, 1901- Serial No. 54,337. No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. CQOLEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Hot Springs, in the county of Garland and State of Arkansas,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Check-Punches, ofwhich the following is a specification, reference being had therein tothe accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in check andpaper'punches, in which a set of female dies are held stationary, eachfemale die forming the side of a slot into which the paper to be punchedis inserted, while a longitudinally-movable jaw or plate carrying aseries of male dies is adapted to be actuated by a handle having apivoted lever connection with the movable jaw for the purpose of forcingthe dies through the paper to be punched and through the female dies.

The invention will be hereinafter more fully described and thenspecifically defined in the appended claims, and is clearly illustratedin the accompanying drawings, which with the letters of reference markedthereon form a part of this application, and in which drawings similarletters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several Views,inwhich Figure l is a side elevation of the punch. Fig. 2 is a side viewof the set of female dies, the jaw or plate carrying the male dieshaving been removed. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the set of male dies.Fig. 4 is an edge view of the parts disassembled, and Fig. 5 is anenlarged detail view showing the manner of the male dies entering thefemale dies. Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail view of a portion of one ofthe plates carrying the dies, the handles being broken away.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, Adesignates a plate having a series of grooves to receive the butt orlower ends of the female dies A. The lower portion of said dies aresquare-shaped in crosssection and are seated in said grooves in parallelrelation withjone another,with their outer faces flush with the face ofsaid plate. To securely hold the dies A in place, the shank portionsthereof are sweated into grooves in which they are located. Each of saiddies is longitudinally slotted, as at a, into which aperture in thefemale dies.

slots the paper to be punched is inserted. Covering one face of theplate A and the outer edges of said female dies is an angle-plate E, theupper angled edge of which plate E extends over the tops of dies and isprovided with a series of slots which register with the slots in thefemale dies. The edges of the slots serve as guides to direct theinsertion of a piece of paper into the slot of each die. The oppositeside walls of the female dies are perforated to form the figure, asshown in Fig. 4. Integral with the plate A is a handle a which isapertured, as at a, through which aperture a screw D is passed.

The male dies b are seated in grooves in the plate B. This plate issubstantially similar in construction to the plate A, and the lower endof each male die is contracted and flush with the outer faces of theportions of the plate between the grooves therein. These male dies areheld inplace by sweating similarly as are the female dies.

0 designates the second handle of the punch, which is apertured, as atC, Fig. 4, to receive the screw D.

Each of the male dies has laterally-disposed die-pins 5 which when thetwo plates are adjusted together are in registration with the On theouter face of the plate 13 is a lug b and F is a lever member which iscentrally apertured and threaded to receive the threaded end of thescrew D when said member is placed over the outer face of the head endof the handle 0, so that its central aperture will be in registrationwith the aperture in said handles. This member F has a lug d, which isdesigned to be seated in a hole 01, to cause the link or member F tomove with the handle 0. The member F is apertured at d to receive thepin or lug b whereby as the handles are forced toward each other andretarded by the spring F the plate B is caused to reciprocate againstthe inner face of the plate A, and by the provision of this spring themale dies are held out of engagement with the female dies, said springbeing secured to one handle and having its free end bearing against theother handle.

When the various parts of the punch are assembled together, the maledies are located in the spaces between the pairs of female dies,

so that when the handles are forced together against the tension of thespring F the'plate B is caused to move longitudinally by the levermember F, which as the handles are forced together will cause the outerend of said member to swing laterally, and with it the plate B will bemoved sufficiently to drive the male dies through the walls of thefemale dies, as will be readily understood. The spring will return themale dies to their normal or starting positions.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to be new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A check-punch, comprising a stationary and a, longitudinally-movableplate, held in contact with each other, alternately-disposed male andfemale dies carried by said plates, an integral handle on saidstationary plate, a threaded pivotal pin carried by said handle, asecond handle pivotally mounted on said pin, a projecting plate held onthe threaded end of the pin, a lug secured to said project ing plate andengaging in a recess in the pivotal handle, a lug projecting from theouter 25 face of the longitudinally-movable plate, and engaging in anaperture in said projecting plate, as set forth.

2. A check-punch comprising a plate Ahaving a series of grooves in oneface thereof, a series of dies having contracted portions which areseated in said grooves and having the outer faces of said contractedportions flush with the inner face of the plate, combined with a secondplate having a similar series of dies similarly mounted and alternatelydisposed with relation to said first series of dies, a pivoted handle,and a projecting plate connecting one end of said handle and one of theplates which is longitudinally movable as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES COOLEY.

Witnesses:

' M. A. EIsELE,

CHAS. F. BROWN.

